I'm writing a script that parses the output of lsof to show a list of what processes have sockets open (similar to what netstat shows). lsof also gives me a file descriptor. What I want to do now is ...

I have a script with a pipeline where the data is throttled by a program. Every 20 minutes, a throughput status is sent on stderr, and I simply redirect this to a file:
command | cstream -t -512k -T ...

Is there an equivalent to the amazing systat command in Linux-based operating systems?
For those who don't know about it, the BSD's systat command is just amazing. It displays live graphs of network ...

I have installed collectd and got it running but also wanted to use the Ping plugin ( https://collectd.org/wiki/index.php/Plugin:Ping ) but it's not actually installed by default (i.e. not in the list ...

On several linux machines (some old custom variant of gentoo) I have huge wtmp files, up to gigabyte in size. After some experiments I know that there is rpc.statd daemon running on all servers and ...

I log various stats both generic and custom from a lot of different servers using collectd to a single host running a network listener. The setup is pretty simple. All the systems run an instance of ...

I have two machines with two applications that talk to each other on few network ports (TCP and UDP). I want to count traffic that they send and receive. I need not only overall count but stats per ...

I have access to an academic supercomputer where there is an NFS filesystem where our lab keeps our data.
When I run iostats -nh I believe I am getting statistics for all users accessing all storage ...